[Chaosenemy]

Okay, I know I just made another topic like 5 minutes ago, but... I've already got another question.

Basically I'm wondering how you can use outside files with a C++ console application. Like for instance have your EXE file and then a TXT file that the program accesses for certain values.

Example:
{
You have a text game of some kind, a text game that saves your progress so that when you exit it, you don't have to start all over. Your progress would be saved in a text file, holding values like "playerName", "playerScore", etc that will be accessed when running the program again.
}

So is there a way to do this? Make your program call on another file to define certain variables?

(This could also be useful for changing other game values to make it easier/harder to beat a.k.a. modding, without having to recompile the whole thing.)

[baronvongogo]

yes using #include<fstream> I think...

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files.html

here's a link to some tutorials I did write a RPG game all in text, and I had to read and write from a file it worked fine just don't have the code anymore .

[hillbillybob]

If your talking like a config file or INF file....ya, you will need to read the file, parse it to pick out the data you want, bind that to your variables so that your program can run it with the new values. I can do it in C#, but im not good enough to give you some example code in C++. Sorry.

[Nikkon]

You can google C++ file handling tutorials and get a ton of examples. Its a pretty easy concept. You can also think about doing some sort of encryption on the data that you store in the file (so that the user does not open the file and edit it to advance them selves in the game). You can google binary encryption if you are instrested in that. (usually just a shift left or shift right of 4 bits of each ascii character).